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The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Program: Economic Benefits to American Communities (2019)

This study estimates the impacts of the U.S. foreign-trade zone program on employment, wage and value added growth in the local economic communities in which they operate. It finds that the FTZ program has contributed to increased growth in those variables in communities with an FTZ, relative to communities without an FTZ.

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Trade and American Jobs: The Impact of Trade on U.S. and State-Level Employment Update (2019)

Trade Partnership Worldwide, LLC, updated its periodic estimate of the number of U.S. jobs that depend on trade. We found that U.S. exports and imports of goods and services supported 39 million U.S. jobs in 2017. This means that one in every five U.S. jobs is linked to trade. Nearly 2.7 times as many jobs were supported by trade in 2017 as in 1992 – before the accelerated wave of trade liberalization that began with the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 – when our earlier research found that trade supported 14.5 million jobs, or one in every ten U.S. jobs. Prepared for the Business Roundtable.

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CompTIA Tech Trade Snapshot (2019)

This report provides data, analysis, and insight into the international trade market for information technology products and services. The underlying import and export statistics are compiled by the Foreign Trade Division of the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. International Trade Administration of the Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. The export-supported employment figures are compiled by The Trade Partnership’s CDxports database.

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This report, prepared for the National Retail Federation, estimates the impacts of proposed tariffs on imports from China, including: apparel, footwear, toys, household appliances, furniture, travel goods, and televisions. We find consumers would pay $4.4 billion more for apparel, $2.5 billion more for footwear, $3.7 billion more for toys, and $1.6 billion more for household appliances. The rise in tariffs to 25 percent forces purchasers of furniture to pay $4.6 billion more, and of travel goods, $1.2 billion more.

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In a new report prepared for The Consumer Technology Association, The Trade Partnership estimated the impacts of proposed tariffs on specific imports from China, including: cell phones. laptops, tablets, video game consoles, and toy drones. The results demonstrate that, even accounting for alternative sources of supply, the proposed tariffs would have substantial negative impact on American consumers, such as an increase in the price of laptops and tablets by 19.1%.

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Estimated Impacts of Tariffs on the U.S. Economy and Workers (2019)

This study, prepared for Tariffs Hurt the Heartland, estimates the economic effects on the U.S. economy and U.S. jobs of U.S. tariffs and quotas on steel, aluminum and selected products from China, and retaliation by U.S. trading partners. The study investigates comprehensive impacts of actual and threatened tariffs on the U.S. economy and U.S. workers one to three years after they have been in effect. Key findings include significant reduction in U.S. GDP and the net loss of millions of U.S. jobs. The study breaks job impact estimates down by state for two of the four tariff scenarios examined.